EFCC under fire for allegedly conducting midnight raid on Aisha Achimugu's home

• The Coalition for Accountability and Good Governance has criticised the EFCC for its handling of the high-profile lawsuit involving businesswoman Aisha Sulaiman Achimugu
• The radical alleged that contempt Achimugu’s cooperation, EFCC officials took drastic steps, including a arguable midnight cognition astatine her residence
• The civic organisation besides raised concerns implicit owed process and the broader implications for governance and capitalist assurance successful the country

Abuja, FCT - The Coalition for Accountability and Good Governance has powerfully condemned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for declaring salient businesswoman and philanthropist Aisha Sulaiman Achimugu wanted, describing the determination arsenic unjust.

At a property briefing successful Abuja, the coalition's spokesman, Comrade Taiwo Adenuga, decried what helium called an unlawful penetration of Achimugu’s residence and the alleged mistreatment of her aged parent by EFCC operatives.

EFCC Accused of Raiding Aisha Achimugu's Home, Harassing 80-Year-Old Mother: ' Political Witch-hunt’
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Group raises concerns implicit EFCC's alleged actions

Adenuga urged the anti-graft bureau to uphold owed process and fairness successful its operations.

"As an enactment that has consistently supported anti-corruption efforts and the regularisation of law, we are, however, constrained to explicit our heavy dissatisfaction with the mode successful which the EFCC is demonstrating its desperation to clamp down connected Mrs. Achimugu and her household," helium said.

According to Adenuga, Achimugu had been cooperative with the EFCC's investigation. He stated that aft receiving an invitation from the commission’s Port Harcourt zonal bureau connected March 4, 2025, she promptly responded the pursuing day, informing officials that she was retired of the state for aesculapian reasons and requesting a rescheduled date.

"Despite this, erstwhile she did not person a effect from the EFCC regarding her rescheduling request, she followed up with different missive a week aboriginal and subsequently wrote straight to the EFCC Chairman. This missive was duly acknowledged," helium said.

However, connected March 15, 2025, the EFCC declared Achimugu wanted, a determination Adenuga described arsenic "shocking and troubling," saying it subjected her and her household to terrible affectional distress.

EFCC accused of midnight raid and harassment

The conjugation further alleged that, contempt assurances from EFCC enactment against nighttime raids, operatives stormed Achimugu’s Abuja location successful the mediate of the night.

"This raid saw her household members, home staff, and adjacent her 80-year-old parent subjected to harassment, intimidation, and undue distress," Adenuga said, adding that the cognition was carried retired without a valid tribunal warrant."To marque matters worse, operatives carted distant respective valuables belonging to the family, a spectacle vividly captured successful tv footage of the nighttime raid," helium added.

Group alleges governmental witch-hunt

The conjugation insisted that the EFCC's actions suggested a politically motivated run alternatively than a morganatic investigation.

"The series of events starring to the declaration of Mrs. Achimugu arsenic a wanted idiosyncratic reeks of an orchestrated governmental witch-hunt alternatively than a genuine investigative process," Adenuga stated.

He described Achimugu arsenic a respected entrepreneur with a coagulated way grounds successful concern and nationalist development, arguing that she had ne'er been recovered culpable of immoderate wrongdoing earlier this incident.

Coalition calls for transparency

The conjugation warned that the EFCC’s handling of Achimugu’s case, alongside erstwhile arguable operations, including the lawsuit of erstwhile Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello, posed risks to capitalist assurance successful Nigeria.

"The deliberate targeting and nationalist shaming of hardworking individuals nether the guise of warring corruption is not lone tarnishing the estimation of the EFCC but besides undermining its precise mandate," Adenuga said.

The radical urged the EFCC to run wrong the law, respect citizens' rights, and debar media trials.

"In conclusion, we powerfully condemn the unjust declaration of Mrs. Aisha Achimugu arsenic wanted, the unlawful penetration of her home, and the mistreatment of her aged mother," Adenuga said. "We telephone connected the EFCC to retrace its steps and uphold owed process, fairness, and the principles of justness successful the execution of its duties."

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